What permissions do you need for this? Do you have to be the owner of the network in order to sniff things out in this manner? Or is it possible for me to steal accounts off a public network?
It is the lack of SSL that is the problem here, and it is the non-use of SSL that 'is the elephant in the room,'
This has been going on for a long time now - attend a NANOG meeting and use unencrypted logins, and you may well see your password on the screen by the end of the meeting - the white hat guys routinely sniff the wireless for passwords.
Large, but not that large. Most US telecoms hubs have several centers at the 500K SF level. Google has more than a dozen data centers with ~ 100,000 square feet each.
With buildout costs ranging from ~ $ 1000 / SF to a rumored 3 times that for Google, this is probably a billion dollar investment for Apple.
This is total BS, but it is convenient it appears just before the mid-term elections (the mention of Carter is a dead give-away here). I have much too much respect for the people in the DNA to give this any credence. It may be something was lost, but I don't think for one instant that this jeopardized our nuclear deterrence in the slightest.
I don't know where to start, except to say that the story as written implies a security system for the frakking nuclear force that wouldn't pass an elementary security review. Tokens may always be lost or compromised, and must be replaceable at will. Presidents go jogging, swimming, fishing, etc., meet foreign leaders (and even take them to places like Camp David); it must be assumed that the "biscuit" could be compromised at any time and thus must be replaceable at any time. Further, if the President is in the White House, on Air Force One, at Camp David, etc., there is an infrastructure around him that includes plenty of people that could vouch for him. If SAC commanders have an ability to launch if communications with the National Command Authority is lost (and they do), then I don't believe for an instant that the President in the White House situation room couldn't give any necessary orders. Further, it is not reasonable to expect that even the most conscientious leader will always have the biscuit on him. (In the bath ? While scuba diving ? Horse back riding ? Or, clearing brush at some Texas ranch ?) Again, I do not believe that our deterrence will fail because no one figured that the President might be a few miles from his coat when the crisis came.
So, I call BS on this. It just doesn't pass the smell test.
This has been the fault line in the Hulu business model since Day 1 - there is no way Hulu wanted to do this (block Internet users based on who they are affiliated with?), but they are a creature of their owners, who basically don't want Internet TV to succeed. It is a little surprising to see Rupert Murdoch do this so nakedly over such a comparatively trivial dispute.
If you think you are going to "Cut the Cord" with Hulu, think again.
I think, though, that the real thing that killed the hover car was that it was hard to control. Turning was hard, and so was braking, as you weren't able to use friction with the ground. The result was that hovercraft at speed need lots of room to maneuver . That's OK for a ferry, but not desirable if you want to use them on roads.
The entire reason the Federal penitentiary system was created and the first Federal penitentiary (in Atlanta) was built was to handle drug criminals. Before that, except for the military, there basically weren't any Federal prisoners.
As a "non-treaty treaty" negotiated in secret without any attempt at public accountability or a public vote of adoption, ACTA represents an abuse of process and should be opposed even if all it did was support Motherhood and Apple Pie.
I call BS on that. Those panels were removed to make a point, and a partisan point at that - killing alternative energy was one of Reagan's campaign points in 1980. He mentioned it in his frakking debate with Carter. Reagan described the entire alternative energy R&D program as a waste of money, killed it deader than a doornail, and this was part of that campaign. And, by the way, they were only "donated" to a college because an admin at the college campaigned to get them from whatever GSA warehouse they were stuck in.
"...— which was quietly removed during Reagan's tenure in office"
I don't know what the OP is talking about. This was done very early on and was publicized widely, as a way of showing how the Reagan administration was forward looking and confident, as opposed to the defeatist Carter administration (or something like that - I could never really grasp Reagan's propaganda). What was done fairly quietly was the complete evisceration and cancelation of the Carter era alternative energy research program, which was just at the stage of showing promise. What was left unsaid was how pleased the oil companies were by all of this.
Fast disappearing ? I think it has a few billion years to go, 100 million years would be a low estimate. Heck, Phobos will crash in only a few million years, and even that.is considerably longer than NASA's time horizon
It has been 4 + decades since the space program dominated electronics development.
Anyway, by the time any piece of electronics gets radiation hardened and goes through the "soak" - i.e., a few simulated years or decades worth of cycling through heat, usage, etc., plus fixing any uncovered problems, it is by definition not going to be cutting edge.
It's good that space computers are more commonplace, anyway. Viking 1 died because JPL couldn't afford to keep the people who understood the archaic assembly language for the landers in the ramped down extended mission team.
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It was NOT just DNS, as it happened even for IP addresses. There has been a lot of discussion of this over on NANOG - there were http 500 server errors and apparently also some indications of problems with their CDN.
It's just a WA guess, but I bet some configuration change went wildly wrong.
Actually IIRC it's the property itself that is charged, and not a person. Courts could theoretically choose to ignore you as you are not a party to the charge(s) and therefor have no legal standing to affect the case. I guess you could try some witchcraft to animate your property and have it file on it's own behalf, I suppose.
I am a voting citizen; the courts can choose to ignore me, but politically I have standing to make these comments.This, at its heart, is a political matter, not a legal matter.
I have heard and read these arguments and find them totally inadequate and unconvincing. It just shows how perverted the legal system can get when it loses its connections to reality and morality. From the larger political standpoint, this is a gross abuse of both process and power, and anyone who had anything to do with it should be ashamed.
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What permissions do you need for this? Do you have to be the owner of the network in order to sniff things out in this manner? Or is it possible for me to steal accounts off a public network?
None, no, and most emphatically yes.
It is the lack of SSL that is the problem here, and it is the non-use of SSL that 'is the elephant in the room,'
This has been going on for a long time now - attend a NANOG meeting and use unencrypted logins, and you may well see your password on the screen by the end of the meeting - the white hat guys routinely sniff the wireless for passwords.
Large, but not that large. Most US telecoms hubs have several centers at the 500K SF level. Google has more than a dozen data centers with ~ 100,000 square feet each.
With buildout costs ranging from ~ $ 1000 / SF to a rumored 3 times that for Google, this is probably a billion dollar investment for Apple.
Don't bet on that.
This is total BS, but it is convenient it appears just before the mid-term elections (the mention of Carter is a dead give-away here). I have much too much respect for the people in the DNA to give this any credence. It may be something was lost, but I don't think for one instant that this jeopardized our nuclear deterrence in the slightest.
I don't know where to start, except to say that the story as written implies a security system for the frakking nuclear force that wouldn't pass an elementary security review. Tokens may always be lost or compromised, and must be replaceable at will. Presidents go jogging, swimming, fishing, etc., meet foreign leaders (and even take them to places like Camp David); it must be assumed that the "biscuit" could be compromised at any time and thus must be replaceable at any time. Further, if the President is in the White House, on Air Force One, at Camp David, etc., there is an infrastructure around him that includes plenty of people that could vouch for him. If SAC commanders have an ability to launch if communications with the National Command Authority is lost (and they do), then I don't believe for an instant that the President in the White House situation room couldn't give any necessary orders. Further, it is not reasonable to expect that even the most conscientious leader will always have the biscuit on him. (In the bath ? While scuba diving ? Horse back riding ? Or, clearing brush at some Texas ranch ?) Again, I do not believe that our deterrence will fail because no one figured that the President might be a few miles from his coat when the crisis came.
So, I call BS on this. It just doesn't pass the smell test.
...the first place to test Internet speeds up to one gigabit per second
I think not. Peter Lothberg's Mom has had 40 Gbps for over 3 years now.
And "here" would be where, exactly ?
Bet me to it - what else can you say ?
This has been the fault line in the Hulu business model since Day 1 - there is no way Hulu wanted to do this (block Internet users based on who they are affiliated with?), but they are a creature of their owners, who basically don't want Internet TV to succeed. It is a little surprising to see Rupert Murdoch do this so nakedly over such a comparatively trivial dispute.
If you think you are going to "Cut the Cord" with Hulu, think again.
I think, though, that the real thing that killed the hover car was that it was hard to control. Turning was hard, and so was braking, as you weren't able to use friction with the ground. The result was that hovercraft at speed need lots of room to maneuver . That's OK for a ferry, but not desirable if you want to use them on roads.
Well, having had a muffler fall off, I can testify that piston engines are intrinsically pretty loud too.
I mean, just look at the Disneyfied versions of old tales. They frequently change the ending to something more upbeat so that people will want to go.
Editors did that to Shakespeare (especially downers like King Lear) for centuries. Cordelia married happily every after, hah !
The surface pressure in Hellas is nowhere near 200 mbar. If you disagree, please provide a reference from the scientific literature.
The entire reason the Federal penitentiary system was created and the first Federal penitentiary (in Atlanta) was built was to handle drug criminals. Before that, except for the military, there basically weren't any Federal prisoners.
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As a "non-treaty treaty" negotiated in secret without any attempt at public accountability or a public vote of adoption, ACTA represents an abuse of process and should be opposed even if all it did was support Motherhood and Apple Pie.
Don't you feel stupid for posting that blindly partisan crap just a few seconds after this:
He removed solar thermal panels, probably much less efficient than the evacuated tubes used today, when the roof was being repaired in 1986:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2DF113BF937A1575BC0A960948260 [nytimes.com]
I call BS on that. Those panels were removed to make a point, and a partisan point at that - killing alternative energy was one of Reagan's campaign points in 1980. He mentioned it in his frakking debate with Carter. Reagan described the entire alternative energy R&D program as a waste of money, killed it deader than a doornail, and this was part of that campaign. And, by the way, they were only
"donated" to a college because an admin at the college campaigned to get them from whatever GSA warehouse they were stuck in.
"...— which was quietly removed during Reagan's tenure in office"
I don't know what the OP is talking about. This was done very early on and was publicized widely, as a way of showing how the Reagan administration was forward looking and confident, as opposed to the defeatist Carter administration (or something like that - I could never really grasp Reagan's propaganda). What was done fairly quietly was the complete evisceration and cancelation of the Carter era alternative energy research program, which was just at the stage of showing promise. What was left unsaid was how pleased the oil companies were by all of this.
Fast disappearing ? I think it has a few billion years to go, 100 million years would be a low estimate. Heck, Phobos will crash in only a few million years, and even that .is considerably longer than NASA's time horizon
It has been 4 + decades since the space program dominated electronics development.
Anyway, by the time any piece of electronics gets radiation hardened and goes through the "soak" - i.e., a few simulated years or decades worth of cycling through heat, usage, etc., plus fixing any uncovered problems, it is by definition not going to be cutting edge.
It's good that space computers are more commonplace, anyway. Viking 1 died because JPL couldn't afford to keep the people who understood the archaic assembly language for the landers in the ramped down extended mission team.
That's why God created Slashdot.
It was NOT just DNS, as it happened even for IP addresses. There has been a lot of discussion of this over on NANOG - there were http 500 server errors and apparently also some indications of problems with their CDN.
It's just a WA guess, but I bet some configuration change went wildly wrong.
Jee, is everyone writing on the web 13 years old ?
I think that ACTA is now a dead letter.
Actually IIRC it's the property itself that is charged, and not a person. Courts could theoretically choose to ignore you as you are not a party to the charge(s) and therefor have no legal standing to affect the case. I guess you could try some witchcraft to animate your property and have it file on it's own behalf, I suppose.
I am a voting citizen; the courts can choose to ignore me, but politically I have standing to make these comments.This, at its heart, is a political matter, not a legal matter.
I have heard and read these arguments and find them totally inadequate and unconvincing. It just shows how perverted the legal system can get when it loses its connections to reality and morality. From the larger political standpoint, this is a gross abuse of both process and power, and anyone who had anything to do with it should be ashamed.